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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
It's never safe to leave a child on their own though !!! I'm not a parent and even I know if i had three young children I would not leave them without adequate supervision in place !!!
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No, it's never "safe" but it happens. I'm a parent of four children, all are happy and healthy, despite not having a perfect mother, although I never actually left them alone to go out socially. But my parents regularly left me asleep when I was as old as Madeleine to go to the pub near their house and my husband's parents did the same with their 8 children and went considerably further living in a very isolated house. Talking to friends this seems to have been quite common in previous generations and still happens a lot more than one would believe reading blogs and message boards now.
But children become more "precious" with each generation it seems.